AXE TO GRIND PODCAST

A tease episode before we all land back at home and can get back to business. Quick Sound & Fury recap with Bob and friend of the podcast, Eric. Thanks for the memories, California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's that time of year when everyone makes a pilgrimage to Los Angeles to experience one of the best HC fests going, Sound & Fury. Interesting lineup this year and we dig into every crevice of it. New acts, established acts, even a reunion or two. Also, we talk about Alien Ant Farm and Irritable Bowel Syndrome. NEW MUSIC FROM GEL AND COLD BRATS! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There was a time when California was just as powerful a HC machine as it is today... but some of us didn't know it! We're talking on some of the bands we slept on or feel other people slept on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do hardcore kids miss the punk boat and is there any way to get on it once you've started sailing the HC seas? Some humble recommendations. Also, is John Brannon a sex symbol? Check it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some big announcements, and loving recap of recent events including the biggest HC fest of all time. A lot going on, from shows to live podcasts to a killer premiere by Boise's own REJECTION PACT. Get it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A little breather to reflect on 80s Mosh Madness up to this point. Have we learned anything? Also, how to use the bathroom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eric drops in to play a little THIS OR THAT, a simple game with deadly consequences. Sheer Terror or Merauder, which makes you mosh the drywall? Have Heart or Bane, which makes you donate your time to a local charity? Indie rock or pop punk, which traps you in amber as an adult? More deadly inquiries! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Questions from all angles. Is it worth doing a band as an old person? How do you tell a story people may care about? Is corniness inevitable? Is promotion annoying? What constitutes a DM slide? How do you approach an old head in the wild? So much knowledge in one convenient audio log! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Patrick prattles about disc golf until the hook takes him off-stage and then we dive into BL'AST “Its In My Blood” vs FU’s “My America” and VERBAL ABUSE “Just an American Band” vs MDC “Millions of Dead Cops”. It's a ripper. [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Production; taking the bait; Tears For Fears; being too heavy; End It hosts the Playa Haters' Ball; running a record store in Portugal under a fake name. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The bracket is fierce: CRUMBSUCKERS; D.R.I.; VISION; WARZONE. Also, naked moshing, senility, and being wrong for multiple decades. [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bands supporting bands, or at least not hatin. The case for Limp Bizkit. The celeb cosign in 2022. Being a celeb in your own head. Are we witnessing the Turnstile effect already? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

News of the world, and then straight into a 80s Mosh Madness bracket for the ages: Adolescents; Neurosis; Youth of Today; YDI. Something for everyone here. Truly delish! [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Festival season approaches! Compulsive gambling. Outburst. Staged live photos. Bookbag vs backpack sectarianism. Also, you're balding. It's all here, folks. [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How sharp is your hardcore brain? Could you compete in the terrordome of intellectual athletics that A2G designed? Is Tom cheating at these games of honor again? Change.org for Blues Traveler. Australian grocers. And [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Travel; on-stage meltdowns; human moments; Rollins Band; do you gotta be great to be vulnerable; more! [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is hardcore changing? Obviously. But are these shifts temporary or is this a new direction for the genre? We won't know for sure for a decade, but we're here to speculate today! Also, getting vulnerable on main. [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan Weinraub Recovery fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/dan-weinraub-recovery-fund Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What to expect (or not) as a HC band. How niche is niche? Do you deserve a microphone that doesn't give you tetanus? Is sweat equity real or is it all a roulette wheel? Zing a dong bone, let's go. [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We get a visit from HC HR. Time for our yearly training. Also, Super Mario 44. Pit reports agogo. Davey Havok TMZ. Dubstep. And are you jealous of Turnstile? [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How would you explain some very basic hardcore ideas to someone who just doesn't know yet? Could you do it without sounding insane? Also, a debut from the newly remastered FASTBREAK release, a Touche Amore ticket giveaway, and more talk about Dog Eat Dog than you'd expect. Stacked episode. As always, send your pit reports to [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

80s Mosh Madness rolls on! INFEST vs INSTED; DESCENDENTS vs TOKEN ENTRY. Some big hitters and some dark horses. Also, train people, dope hair, and is Sepultura cool? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Middle-parts are back on the heads of young people, everyone dresses like they're going to a Shelter show in 1996, and the rising tide of Turnstile is raising all our ships. 2022 is wild. The good, the bad, and the perplexing. The state of things. Plus track debuts from COMBUST, RAW BREED, and VIDEO PRICK. Send us a pit report [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How well do you know your hardcore geography? Ok then, what's the best HC band from Wisconsin? Quick! Clock is running! *NUHH* Also, Barry Bond's head. Send us a pit report [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The lads are back on the Jersey Shore. It's 80s Mosh Madness and we've got SICK OF IT ALL, DYS, UNDERDOG, and THE FAITH. Who's solid... and who has TRACKS? All this and white reggae too! Send us a pit report [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOLD; CRUCIFIX; RITES OF SPRING; NEGATIVE FX. Who survives to compete in the next round? Also, sports betting is dumb and Kevin Smith's hockey jersey. Send your show report to: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bands breaking up, United Blood, the winds of change, trains, digital streaming platform wars, ignorance, experts, and who killed reunions? Also, a new track from PEACE TEST! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kevin drops in to talk FYA, then we go in on Every Time I Die breakup, nostalgia fest confusion, and 80s Mosh Madness (The Bubble): Battalion of Saints, Carnivore, No For an Answer, TSOL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Long Island fixture and friend of the podcast, Christian, joins us to talk the risks and rewards of being a promoter. Who shouldn't you step to? Was LI the new Seattle? And would that make Neglect the Mother Love Bone of Nassau County? Also, are musicians jerks? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shows getting cancelled; true crime; bands we don't talk about; extended hardcore vacations; Evan Seinfeld's dating life; crust chat; and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Friend of the pod, Pat, stops by to talk Stay Gold; chiropractic mythbusting; best HC drug songs; Turmoil; Tobey McGuire; history in hardcore; ruptured tendons; Sbarro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the year dies, we talk on what we liked and loved from 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tracks, vibe, art, and the intangibles. What goes into a 'complete' record? What records are perfect exemplars of their own energy? We go deep. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Antidote in some shit; when to ditch a song; museum hardcore. And then we're into the Cro-Mags. The good, the bad, and the muscley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The upside potential of having fun on stage; PAHC; coming home with money or not; the beauty of small fests; the south; and lard! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Carnivore Question explored. 2021 v 2020: how has the hardcore temperature changed? Van thefts left and right, what you gonna do? Also, who watches game shows? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Annual sampler of podcasts we like to help you get through the holiday. Whether this is a time with family for you or a protest thereof, you could use something to listen to. And new music from SUNSTROKE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the topics that can be expressed in brief, punchy, news items. Length of shows, zero-clout labels, what's coming up in the next couple months, putting too much on strangers, and De Moines! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mosh Madness of the 80s starts here. Jump in the hot tub as we suss out our feelings on which records to include. Zero Boys or Big Boys? How much X-Claim Records can you take? Who’s the Insted fan of the crew? Lots to listen (or relisten) to for the next few months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hardcore to post-hardcore continuity. The future of Hatebreed. Cover records. The Fear SNL moment. Time travel. More! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Things discussed in vans, from getting covid, to deciding what's THE album from a band, to twerking on a boat. Plus new tracks from EYE FLYS and AGE OF APOCALYPSE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A very New York episode, from all-time classic albums to brand new Facebook beef. Eric joins to bring the Queens Perspective. Plus... RAIN OF SALVATION Live on Axe To Grind! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The A2G hardcore union tries to take a unique swing at personal favorite records of the 90s. Who doesn’t care about Integrity? Redemption 87. Ink and Dagger were sent here from the future. Locality matters. Big swings on the Hardcore Pride EP. Why doesn’t Breakdown get the love for their 90s material? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Go deep as the dudes go 12 deep on their favorite Midwest HC and adjacent acts. Is Negative Approach universal? Chicago’s contribution to the classic table. Pick your flavor of Cleveland. Pull up a chair and take the next exit off I-90. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What it means to do a quality record reissue; why we respect records from dormant bands but not reunion bands, covid on tour, and what this moment is adding up to. It's a topic party, and you're invited. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2009 had some good, some bad, but mostly just a lot of a lot. The Year In Hardcore 2009 continues! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Miracle on the Hudson; Obama redux; ponzi schemes; Michael Jackson dead at 50. And hardcore. Lots of hardcore. Was it good? was it bad? Was it maybe time to hurry up and change? 2009, let's do it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ever just fail to check out a band you're 'supposed' to? Is it too late? From The Mob to Supertouch to At The Gates to Dropkick Murphys and beyond. We ask each other. We commiserate on SpiritAir; what's ACTUALLY being listened to during the pandemic; firestorming a festival trying to be funny; and an act of bravery in the metal scene that deserves some respect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

WHO WENT POO ON THAT TURNSTILE STAGE? your Facebook friends are getting a sitter for the night to see Hatebreed on a Tuesday; what bands are big; Randy Newman; naught punk words; putting cover songs on your LP; breakfast potatoes; Morrissey's shirts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A barrage of quick hit news items, including the latest cover from Code Orange, Nirvana baby kid, Patrick chasing licensing money, and Abolishing White Hardcore. Then... the sleepover begins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices